2011-03-06 [UPDATE] Bastille Day in #Egypt, Egyptians Storm Secret Service, US Secretary of Defense, Gates En Route; #Amndawala Leaks launches on Facebook and Twitter
from WL Central by carwin biloquist
2011-03-05 Bahrain Clashes Last Night in Hamad Town, Unconfirmed rpts of Pro-Gov ‘Thugs’ with Al Qaeda flag threatening residents.
What is happening in Libya may not be as clear cut as it appears.
Libya disconnects from the Internet
Monitoring firm Renesys reports that following sporadic outages throughout the week, Libya now appears to be completely disconnected from the Internet:
Maltese EU commissioner goes way off script on Libya
from FP Passport by Joshua Keating
Egypt: The Day the Secrets were Revealed
Written by Amira Al Hussaini
After the Egyptians succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak – they set their goal on cutting the hydra’s tentacles. A full-waged war started last night against the dreaded State Security apparatus, known as Amn Dawla in Arabic, after news was filtered that this notorious organisation was burning and shredding dossiers and documents.
Middle East: Revolutionary Breeze Blowing from Cairo to Benghazi
from Global Voices Online by Tarek Amr
Crisis Mapping Libya: This is No Haiti
We activated the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) on March 1st and quickly launched a Crisis Map of Libya to support humanitarian preparedness opera-tions. This is the largest deployment of the Task Force since it was formed at the 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping in Boston (ICCM 2010). Task Force partners include CrisisMappers, CrisisCommons, Humanity Road, ICT4Peace, Open Street Map and MapAction. The Task Force currently has trained 166 volunteers. I?m amazed at how far we?ve come since the response to the Haiti earthquake.
Libya: the Washington-London dilemma, Paul Rogers
If not now, when? The responsibility to protect Libyans ? who?, Tim Dunne
Libya: ?Breaking News: Gaddafi is Lying?
Written by John Liebhardt
This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Al Gaddafi spoke for more than three hours on state television Wednesday, March 2, denying that anti-government protesters and members of the military were mobilizing against his regime. Instead the dictator, who has been in power for four decades, blamed Islamic terror groups, foreign nations with colonial aspirations and the international media for creating stories about the Libya’s descent into chaos.
Saif al-Qaddafi’s fall from grace
from FP Passport by David Kenner
Will Pakistan follow Egypt?
Gleaned from Patricia Lee Sharpe’s mailbox: an Op-Ed by Zubeida Mustafa in Dawn (Karachi) February 23, 2011.
The question above is agitating many minds today. If we believe in the domino effect, other states should follow suit. Egypt came after Tunisia and now there are rumblings in other parts of the Arab world.
I tried to look for the answer to this explosive question in the poem Fahmida Riaz recited at the Critical Discourse session of the Sindh Education Foundation recently.
Serbia: Reactions to Gaddafi’s Interview on Pink TV
Written by Sasa Milosevic
This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.
Libyan president Muammar Al Gaddafi gave an 8-minute phone interview to Serbian TV Pink on February 28, describing Libya as ?an absolutely peaceful? country and declaring its rebellious people ?Al Qaida gangs.? He spoke of unrestrained and drugged groups of young people who occupied mosques, intimidating visitors:
Press release: How youth editions are explaining the Middle East revolutions
The unparalleled recent events in Tunisia and Egypt have offered newspapers a chance to make use of their youth pages and supplements to explain a complex situation.
Egypt?s revolution and the new feminism
?I?m making this video to give you one simple message. We want to go down to Tahrir Square on January 25. If we still have honor and we want to live in dignity on this land, we have to go down on January 25. We?ll go down and demand our rights, our fundamental rights. . . . Your presence with us will make a difference, a big difference!?
?Asma Mahfouz
BEN-AMI: Saving the Egyptian Revolution
Egypt without Mubarak, or Mubarak without Mubarak?, Eberhard Kienle
Morocco: Casablanca Protest Draws Thousands
Written by Jillian C. York
Protests in Casablanca’s Mohammed V square today drew thousands of Moroccans, as evidenced by the many photos and videos being posted online. Participants in the demonstration are demanding government reform and an end to corruption.
Panning back to Egypt?
A couple of weeks ago, the big question had ceased to be ?Will there be a revolution in Egypt?? and had become ?Will it matter?? The revolutionaries had demonstrated that they could endure, could divide the Army from the government and the security state, and had eventually succeeded in chasing the president out of power. But would this mean lasting change? Wouldn?t it just imply the creation of a new ruling elite, or a permanently-temporary military junta? The grey lineup detailed here were in charge, issuing statements about going back to work. This piece from David Wessel of the Wall Street Journal sketches it out, and reveals far more than it means to.
Libya: Videos Expose Gaddafi’s Violent Riposte
from Global Voices Online by Hisham
Libya: European navies update, and links
Information Dissemination is worried that the northern shore of the Mediterranean is now ?ungoverned territory?. This is surely odd ? Egypt and Tunisia have entirely functional governments. Surely it?s Libya that?s gone anarchic? It does tell you something about the rules-of-the-road some people have internalised. If it?s not our dictator it doesn?t count as government, and the answer is a US carrier group.
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